Re: [TCLUG:2438] Somethings ... STATUS REPORT

[Gordon Pedersen <gordo@pclink.com>]

But as I recall, there was traffic outbound from your system to
"bourbon", also.  What explains that?

gp

Richard Seymour wrote:
> 
> BTW, I am leaning towards a misconfigured system as the theory of what
> went wrong on my system now.
> 
> I few days ago I signed up for the PHP mailing list. It has fairly heavy
> traffic.
> 
> I did stop getting mail from them yesterday at some point. It could have
> been before or after the problem began to manifest.
> 
> Looking at security sites today, I did a search on the word "bourbon", the
> host name of the machine that was causing my problems. It showed up in the
> signature of a PHP programmer on the list. I am currently of the belief
> that it is the same machine that manages the mailing list.
> 
> I'm guessing something changed between their system and mine, mail got
> backed up, and kept retrying, keeping my system connected.
> 
> Sound reasonable?
> 
> (I'm not claiming that my system is not part of the problem. I'm sure when
> I look back at how it's configured -- say a year of two from now, when I
> know a lot more about Linux -- that I'll wonder what on earth I was
> thinking. ;-)
> 
> --
> Richard Seymour, Anarchy Software, Inc.
> anarchy@anarchysoftware.com
> 
> The opinions expressed are those of my employer, not my own.
> 
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